Music!

[raven]

I've wanted to make a music post for a while and the lunatunes theme this week is "favourite song(s) off your favourite albums." I'm not much of an album person - I tend to download single songs off iTunes when I want new music - but I do have a few albums I love.

As well as that though, I've always wanted to make a Hindi music post. I know none of you guys are really into it, and to be honest neither am I, really, but I do like it sometimes.

Fumbling Towards Ecstacy, Sarah McLachlan:

Fear
but I fear / I have nothing to give

Possession
and I would be the one / to hold you down

Wait
you lay down beside me then / you were with me every waking hour

Eyes Open, Snow Patrol:

Make This Go On Forever
the weight of water, the way you told me to look past everything I had ever learned

Set The Fire to the Third Bar
their words mostly noises / ghosts with just voices

Retrospective, The Indigo Girls:

Devotion
I would sing a song of devotion

Avalanche, Thea Gilmore:

Have You Heard
have you heard that the Messiah / went and joined the other side?

Mainstream
and another kind of war that is raging in your bloodstream

And the Hindi music. If you download just one thing from this post, download this:

Ik Onkar (Rang de Basanti)

For the record: I love Rang de Basanti. (See icon for two of the shallower reasons why.) It's just... it's so epic, and beautiful, and sure, it's flawed like whoa and I ache to rewrite the last half-hour of it, but for all that, it's so lovely. And this bit of music (just a minute and a half) is part of the background music, and it gives me this quiet peace whenever I hear it.

And this is the title track: Rang de Basanti. Bouncy in a way only Hindi music can be.

Barso Re (Guru)

I've never actually seen this movie, but I love this song. It has a soaring quality that tends to make me turn up the volume.

Ghanana Ghanana (Lagaan)

Another film I love, but the music is just... whoa. I played it on repeat for months. This is the opening of the film, and it's a rain song, under billowing clouds, and it's, oh, gorgeous.

Radha Kaise Na Jale (Lagaan)

My mum and I dance around the kitchen to this.

Comment and tell me if you like. :)

Comments

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

See, whilst I don't listen to hindi music, I'm enjoying listening to these, mainly because the first one that played: Ghanana Ghanana, just made me want to start dancing.
Which, given that I can't sleep but am still tired, is quite an achievement.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I love that song so much. *bounces* I hope you got to sleep. :)

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

I downloaded the Hindi music to check it out. Thanks!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Enjoy!

[mirabile-dictu.livejournal.com]

I love Lagaan and the music so much! I downloaded the other Hindi music to try as well. Thank you!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heeeee! Enjoy!

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

I am so downloading the Hindi stuff! I've only listened to the first song so far but I like it a lot.

(and, yeah, didn't need to download much of the other stuff, as I've already got it...*cough*)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*grins* Glad you like!

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

By coincidence, I just posted to a music-sharing comm asking for Bhangra music (I just watched Bend it like Beckham, and I always liked the soundtrack). My knowledge of Bhangra is extremely limited, and I know nothing of Hindi music, so I've downloaded these tracks as a starting point.

When are you back in Oxford? I hope to become an actual member of ou3fs this year, rather than merely lurking on the LJ comm, so our paths may cross at some point.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Bhangra is about the one genre of music I don't like, oddly enough. I have issues with spoken Punjabi - it doesn't sound melodic to me. Enjoy the Hindi stuff!

End of September, probably! We should get coffee and y'know, actually meet. :P

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

I'm going to download these as soon as ResNet lets me (which may be the day that Benton Fraser lets loose and marches in a gay pride parade) but damn, that's an awesome community that I've never heard of.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It's great! I get all my good stuff from there nowadays.

(which may be the day that Benton Fraser lets loose and marches in a gay pride parade)

Ahahahaha. So help me God, someone must have written this. Oh, with Dief in a rainbow collar and Ray wondering who did what with Fraser's sanity pills.

Shit, I want to write this now. Or make someone else do it for me.

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God, this has the potential to be an awesome AMSF fic. Shit!

oh god.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Rooting through Fraser's desk whilst keeping half an ear open for the approach of the Ice Queen, Ray tells himself over and over that what he's doing here isn't at all wrong, per se.

You see? says his inner monologue. You just thought "per se". You're arguing with Fraser even in the comfort of your own head, for fuck's sake.

He groans, can think of no satisfactory riposte to aim at the voices in his head, and goes on rooting. At the back of the last drawer - which, to his disgust, he got open quite easily with the edge of a credit card and some help from Turnbull's lanyard - he finds a pill bottle attached to a printed script. It's a year old and still has the original seal.

Okay, Ray decides. So, Fraser is not on any kind of sanity-inducing medication, which means he has not recently come off said sanity-inducing medication, and that, Ray must admit, is something he finds quite reassuring. But that also means that when Constable Benton Fraser, RCMP, sat back in a chair in civvies this fine September morning and said, "Ray, I think it would be an interesting experience if we were to attend the pride parade this year", he meant it, and that's not reassuring. At all.

Ray puts his head in his hands and wonders, not for the first time, what the Royal Canadian fuck is going on.

pure crack

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

*
Ray can't find Fraser anywhere. He's been all over the park, deftly avoiding rainbow-colored Slip 'n' Slides covered in something that is most certainly not water; up and down Boystown's main drag, anywhere a Mountie could possibly be.

By now, he's retreated to a relatively secluded part of the park, overlooking the majority of the festivities. Ray's contemplating a missing person's report when he hears it. It's not entirely unfamiliar, though the singer won't quite come to him. He remembers liking the almost sexual jingle of the opening guitar as a teenager, reveling in the lyrics' subtleties. Still, it isn't until someone shouts, “You go, big red!” that the song really piques Ray's notice.

My friends say it's fine, my friends say it's good...

Are you sure you're not the one off sanity-inducing medication? He thinks. Ray's pushed himself to the front of a very excited crowd, and hoping that their taunts aren't referring to Fraser. It would just be...it would just be a little too much for Ray right now.

I'm your toy, your 20th Century boy...

Considering their luster, it's not surprising that a pair of ruby red heels are the first thing to catch Ray's eye. They strut across the stage in time to the beat of the song, expertly twisting this and that way. The heels give way to an equally bright red dress, dangerously short for someone cavorting about in such a way. If the figure weren't moving around so quickly, Ray could definitely see up it. Ray's eyes have nowhere to go but up a suspiciously masculine neck, an angular jaw and then those too familiar blue eyes. It's hard to tell if Fraser's eyes or the glitter surrounding them is shining brighter. Above the stage, a banner reads, “14th ANNUAL AMATEUR STRIPTEASE COMPETETION.”

Re: pure crack

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It's at that point that the world starts going a little fuzzy around the edges. Ray wobbles a little and catches the shoulder of the person closest to him, a woman who until now has been happily wolf-whistling and yelling quite unrepeatable things about Fraser and the places he must have glitter. She steadies him with one hand, peering curiously at him. "Y'all right, our kid?"

The part of Ray's mind that's a cop notices a British accent. "I'm fine," he mutters. "Fine. I'm just... I'm just having a psychotic break right now, that's all."

"Honey, you can do that later. Enjoy the show!"

Ray splutters a tiny bit. "It's, you see, he's my." He stops. "He's. He's. Fuck."

She nods and pats his arm in a motherly way. Ray swallows, nods, and through sheer effort of will, forces himself to look up. Oh, he thinks. Glitter. A lot of glitter. It's everywhere, and oh, fuck Fraser and his fucking attention to detail, it's everywhere. Even on Fraser's lashes, sparkling around his eyes.

That said, Ray is probably the only person in the state of Illinois looking at Fraser's eyes right now.

Re: pure crack

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

It's just slightly too late when Ray realizes those glittering eyes have gotten, very, very close to his own, or that a strong pair of hands is hoisting him up onto the stage. The roar of the crowd as Fraser's glitter-doused hand push off his jacket is deafening, perhaps in anticipation of what's to come.



Fraser twirls him around a little, rubbing up against Ray in a far, far too lecherous way. Ray tries to remind Fraser that they're in the middle of Chicago, and that this is really not the best of ideas; unfortunately for Ray, Fraser chooses this moment to attack Ray's neck. All that escapes is a groan; the world teeters again.


I'mhavingapsychoticbreaki'mhavingapsychoticbreaki'mhavingapsychoticbreak!


Still, it's not until Fraser's hands are down Ray's pants that he passes out.

Re: pure crack

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

He wakes up slowly, into a fuzzy-headed mess of consciousness, and it takes time for him to realise he's alive, that his body aches, that that might be because he's flat on his back on the sidewalk. People are talking in hushed voices around him; they're muttering about things he can't quite hear or understand, and there's a translucency to the light, as though evening has come swiftly behind a clouded sky. Minutes stretch past and he starts to feel better.

Bright colour splashes across his vision all at once as Fraser leans down, thinks better of it and sits on the kerb by Ray's head. He's wearing the red serge, holding his hat. His eyes are soft. "How are you feeling, Ray?" he murmurs. ""What's the last thing you remember?"

Something inside Ray's brain spasms. "I was..." - he pauses - "looking through your desk. I'm sorry."

"I'm sure you had good reason for it." Fraser sounds amused rather than irritated. "I don't know how hard you hit your head, Ray, but a loss of consciousness is not something we can ignore. We should get medical attention for you, and I've informed Lieutenant Welsh that you will perhaps not be returning to the precinct this afternoon. Is that an acceptable course of action?"

"What? Yeah..." Ray sighs, deeply. "Yeah, that's plenty acceptable."

"All right." Fraser waits a second before he stands up, and Ray closes his eyes again. Over the voices and his own breathing, he hears a new sound: the clatter of claws on concrete. He keeps his eyes tightly shut, expecting a slobbering onslaught, but it doesn't come. Diefenbaker merely looks at him, inclining his head, and gives him a small but pointed whine.

Ray follows his gaze to see Fraser, calm and competent as he phones for help and shifts the rubberneckers. Dief whines again, just to make sure Ray gets it. There is a streak of glitter below Fraser's left ear.

It takes all the will in the world for Ray not to pass out again.

Re: pure crack

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

Fin, I would think.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

Took the Hindi music and am now listening through - Ghanana Ghanana is lovely/i> :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? *bounces* Damn, I need to see that film again.

[absinthe-shadow.livejournal.com]

Do you happen to know the email address of your college secretary? I've been looking on the website and none of the contact emails fit what I want to ask (which is: which days will Professor Ricks be there for, and when is his poetry reading?), so I thought you might possibly know from admin-y stuff.

Also, potentially disastrous last-minute fandom change in my AMSF story. Have abandoned West Wing in favour of S&A, despite never having written it before. OhGod.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ack, I'm not sure! Sounds obvious, but have you tried just college.secretary@balliol.ox.ac.uk? I've never emailed her - I've only gone to see her.

tell me about it. groooooooan.

[tau_sigma]

Have downloaded all except Snow Patrol, which I already have. Thankee :) I shall have to let you know what I think later, but I'm intrigued by the Hindi music; I've not really had an opportunity to listen to some before, so it should be interesting.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heee, I hope you like! You may have noticed my continuing quest to get everyone in the world listening to Snow Patrol. *g*

[speccygeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

The Hindi music was awesome. :D I haven't had a lot of exposure to it, but I think I would like to, now!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! Glad you liked.

[robette-wild.livejournal.com]

Hi, I am stealing your Hindi music. Thank you for reading my mind and uploading it before I finished writing up my post requesting it! (No, really, have you been sharing my brain?) :D

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Awesome! Am glad I could, er, anticipate your needs. *g*

[avendya.livejournal.com]

Downloaded Devotion, which I love.

[avendya.livejournal.com]

I know this is a bit of an odd request, as you don't know me (very well, if at all), but is there any chance you could upload the Indigo Girls' Retrospective?

I've asked the f-list, and looked around the usual places, and can't find it. I have three Indigo Girls songs at the moment - Tangled up in Blue, Devotion, Closer to Fine - and I love them all.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I [[heart]] Retrospective, and would be happy to share the love, but it's just that my beloved Loki doesn't connect to the internet for more than two minutes at a time. I can do you individual songs, but not whole albums. What would you like?

[avendya.livejournal.com]

Whatever songs you think are the best are fine with me.

(Also, I'm sorry re. internet connection. That must be rather frustrating.)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ack, it drives me nutty! *g*

You absolutely must hear Galileo (http://www.sendspace.com/file/j9rzdz), it's probably their best, or their most well-known, anyway. Ghost (http://www.sendspace.com/file/y2qpg7) is stunning and gorgeous. Go (http://www.sendspace.com/file/bmjunm) is unlike most of their stuff, but I really like it.

More when Loki loves me again...

[avendya.livejournal.com]

♥

I've had all of those on repeat all day.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Okay, some more while Loki loves me:

Watershed (http://www.sendspace.com/file/aix553)
Three Hits (http://www.sendspace.com/file/bjo2ta)
Shame On You (http://www.sendspace.com/file/c6nxcd)
Leaving (http://www.sendspace.com/file/nnwgei)

[avendya.livejournal.com]

I just realized that I didn't properly thank you for these, but THANK YOU. They're (rather quickly) heading into Top 25 Most Played territory.